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From: Gregor Richards <gr@purdue.edu>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 9/10] GLIBC ABI patches
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 14:19:15 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <500EE723.5050003@purdue.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <65E116B4-1634-478A-957E-A7B374396614@palsenberg.com>

On 07/24/12 14:15, Igmar Palsenberg wrote:
>
>>> Just nonsense aliases GNU uses...
>>> Needed for ABI compatability.
>> could we mark them as such? at least with a comment.
>> I really like that musl is so readable. This patch adds some obfuscation that can simply be countered by marking it as "ok this is only here for reason X."
> I would like to see those options behind a compile time option : It bloats musl with in many cases unneeded code. I test my compiles with musl, and I like it lean and mean.
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
> 	Igmar

These are just aliases, not code. There's no bloat there.

One of the advantages of musl is its LACK of configurability: If you 
have “musl”, you know what precisely you're getting.

With valediction,
  - Gregor Richards



  reply	other threads:[~2012-07-24 18:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-23  1:13 [PATCH 1/10] ioperm & iopl Isaac Dunham
2012-07-23  1:17 ` [PATCH 2/10] splice Isaac Dunham
2012-07-23  1:21 ` [PATCH 3/10] xattr syscalls Isaac Dunham
2012-07-24 18:06   ` orc
2012-07-23  1:24 ` [PATCH 4/10] pipe2 Isaac Dunham
2012-07-23  1:28 ` [PATCH 5/10] __sigsetjmp alias Isaac Dunham
2012-07-23  1:32 ` [PATCH 6/10] Provide private versions of locale/ functions Isaac Dunham
2012-07-23  1:33 ` [PATCH 7/10] __fcntl Isaac Dunham
2012-07-23  1:36 ` [PATCH 8/10] finite Isaac Dunham
2012-07-23  7:58   ` Szabolcs Nagy
2012-07-23  1:38 ` [PATCH 9/10] GLIBC ABI patches Isaac Dunham
2012-07-23 15:11   ` Arvid E. Picciani
2012-07-24 18:15     ` Igmar Palsenberg
2012-07-24 18:19       ` Gregor Richards [this message]
2012-07-24 18:23         ` Igmar Palsenberg
2012-07-24 18:29           ` Gregor Richards
2012-07-24 18:33             ` Igmar Palsenberg
2012-07-24 23:18               ` Rich Felker
2012-07-25  7:27               ` Arvid E. Picciani
2012-07-25 14:12   ` Luca Barbato
2012-07-25 15:19     ` Rich Felker
2012-07-25 15:52       ` Luca Barbato
2012-07-25 17:35         ` Rich Felker
2012-07-25 23:06       ` idunham
2012-07-23  1:40 ` [PATCH 10/10] More glibc ABI compatability Isaac Dunham
2012-08-07  2:22 ` [PATCH 1/10] ioperm & iopl Isaac Dunham
2012-08-07  3:29   ` Isaac Dunham
2012-07-25  3:00 [PATCH 9/10] GLIBC ABI patches idunham
2012-07-25 15:06 ` Rich Felker
2012-07-25 22:19   ` Luca Barbato

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